Really?
"Most of [President] Clinton's policies are very similar to most of mine."--Rudolph Giuliani, New York Post, Jun 8, 1999 (restating RWG quote from 1996 )"I don't think tonight's result is tragic, I guess because I'm not that partisan a person ... I think President Clinton is a good man, he's a very decent man, and the country has run pretty well."--Rudolph Giuliani, commenting on Bob Dole's loss in the 1996 presidential election.
New York Times, Nov 7, 1996
I can hear Bush saying the very same thing about Clinton. It’s political rhetoric.